2. Bert Rodriguez

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​2. Bert Rodriguez

What can we say that December's 3,600-word feature on Bert Rodriguez hasn't? Since appearing on the cover of New Times mocking Kim Kardashian's cover for W magazine's "Art Issue," we wondered shortly thereafter if Kim or any of the editors at the magazine would see it. W has seen it, but we aren't so sure Kim has. (We secretly imagine in our heads she has, and she loves it, but it was cut out from the latest episode of Kourtney & Kim Take New York.)

Courtesy of Bert Rodriguez

​It's exactly that kind of humor that makes Rodriguez an artist that everyone can sort of "get." He's "high-brow" enough that collectors snatch up his pieces sight unseen, but "low-brow" enough that it's obvious he's mocking the artist-as-a-celebrity culture.

Meeting Rodriguez in person, you'd be stunned to learn he lacks that cerebral attitude that affects so many contemporary artists -- especially for someone who has risen the top of Miami's art scene.